Created and presented by: Alfred Hitchcock
Genre: anthology series
360 episodes, 10 seasons
Originally aired on CBS from 1955-1960, then NBC from 1960-1962, then back to CBS from 1962-1964, then again on NBC from 1964-1965
Guest stars included: Lorne Green, Joanne Woodward, Edmund Gwenn, Pat Hingle, Vincent Price, Art Carney, Bette Davis, Roger Moore, Ricardo Montalban, Burt Reynolds, Dick Van Dyke, Peter Falk, Robert Redford
Basically: Series of unrelated short stories covering elements of crime, horror, drama and comedy about people of different species committing murders, suicides, thefts and other sorts of crime caused by certain motivations; perceived or not.
The familiar ‘plink, plink’ of the theme song, accompanied by the line drawing of a man in profile immediately identifies the show as “Alfred Hitchcock Presents.” The famed director opens almost every episode with the words “Good evening …” After a joke — usually about the evening’s sponsor — Hitchcock lays the groundwork for that episode’s freestanding story of suspense and terror. Hitchcock closes the show in much the same way as it opened, but mainly to tie up loose ends rather than joke.
Alfred Hitchcock Presents airs on AntennaTV (28.2) Saturday and Sunday nights at at midnight and 1am!
SOURCES – Alfred Hitchcock Presents Wikipedia entry; Alfred Hitchcock Presents TV Listings for Antenna TV
